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PaleWriter
08-06-2009, 02:40 PM
TMZ is reporting that John Hughes has died of a heart attack.
EJ Pennypacker
08-06-2009, 02:49 PM
no!

EJ
Fargman
08-06-2009, 03:34 PM
Wow. What is with all these deaths lately?
Bono
08-06-2009, 03:46 PM
I was just walking around NYC, come home to find the news that Hughes died doing the same thing today. So depressing. We all grew up on his movies.
FURIOUS BOWLER
08-06-2009, 04:20 PM
Had it while walking. He was 59.
kahunadude
08-06-2009, 05:26 PM
The guy was a screenwriting genius. I read a quote on CNN by Steve Martin..He said Planes, Tranes, and Automobiles was the best script he had read. He asked John Hughes how long did it take him to write...John replied OVER THE WEEKEND...
RGF
08-06-2009, 05:31 PM
He had his pulse on growing up in the 80's and his films reflected my life pretty closely. He will be missed. RIP.
Kevan
08-07-2009, 07:02 AM
He was a big talent, write some of the most successful screenplays of the 1980's and 1990's..

There's some news about his passing on the BBC news website here:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8188778.stm

And an article on some of his films which are cult classins here:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8189311.stm

R.I.P man..
Madbandit
08-07-2009, 08:09 AM
I was just walking around NYC, come home to find the news that Hughes died doing the same thing today. So depressing. We all grew up on his movies.


Amen, brother-in-prose. When you look at the works of Kevin Smith, Seth Rogen (co-wrote "Drillbitt Taylor" with the man, under his pseudonym, Edmond Dantes), Judd Apatow and Diablo Cody, there's some homages to Hughes. Hell, one of my specs has some elements.

First Budd Schulberg (love "A Face In the Crowd") and John Hughes.:(